Pete Stark was recently caught on tape being incredibly rude and condescending towards his constituents at a health care town hall held this weekend in California. His reply to a constituent calling BS on the health care bill and treating Americans as ‘idiots’ was just the icing on the cake for the childish behavior being displayed by Democrats in the past couple of months:

Pete Stark is notorious when it comes to being blunt and uncouth. The double standards shown by the Liberals over the last few months, is what has my panties in a twist. I would like for just one Democrat or one Liberal to admit that there are double standards and that much of their whining about protests, senators calling the president a liar, and fear mongering, is and has been done by those on the political side of the spectrum who now control the legislative and executive branches. It would seem to Liberals that calling somebody out for lying is worse than actually lying under oath and committing the actual act, i.e. Bill Clinton. In a recent post I used two examples from State of the Union addresses where Bush was Boo’ed and interrupted with raucous applause regarding social security obstructionism. However, if we are to get specific on the House rules, these technically do not constitute a rebuke or violate those rules. Knowing the sheer hate launched at president Bush over the last 8 years there had to be at least one Democrat who called him a liar on the House Floor and in fact there was – Pete Stark:

Heaven forbid there is any type of consistency across both sides of the aisle. Nope, the childish Democrats currently holding seats in Congress are acting like kindergartners and wasting taxpayer money to pass a resolution to rebuke Joe Wilson. It should be noted that 7 Republicans voted against their Congressman and 12 Democrats actually voted with Joe Wilson. Kudos to those Democrats who believed this was a waste of time and energy and to the 7, watch out in 2010! Here’s the list:

7 Republicans

Joseph Cao (La.)

Jo Ann Emerson (Mo.)

Jeff Flake (Az.)

Bob Inglis (S.C.)

Walter Jones (N.C.)

Thomas Petri (Wisc.)

Dana Rohrabacher (Ca.)

12 Democrats

Michael Arcuri (N.Y.)

William Delahunt (Mass.)

Gabrielle Giffords (Az.)

Maurice Hinchey (N.Y.)

Paul Hodes (N.H.)

Dennis Kucinich (Ohio)

Daniel Maffei (N.Y.)

Eric Massa (N.Y.)

Jim McDermott (Wash.)

Gwen Moore (Wisc.)

Gene Taylor (Miss.)

Harry Teague (N.M.)

This entire debacle regarding Wilson is dishonest to the core and is merely being done to distract the American public from the health care debate. Wake up and stop being so partisan – start calling a spade a spade, and admit to the hypocrisy: That’s all I ask!

One response to “Somebody Please Rebuke Pete Stark”

As a constituent of Rep. Thomas Petri please accept my humble apology for his vote. Petri was one of the Republicans to vote against term limits under the Contract with America and has been in Congress since I was FIVE YEARS OLD!